Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments: Introduction

Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments burst on the conservative scene in August 2013. Its appeal was not limited to conservative media outlets in talk radio and the internet; the book shot skyward on the New York Times bestseller list to #1 by September 1st. While the second approach to correcting defects in our governing compact has been right under our national noses since 1787, Mark took a modern look at an old clause that had long been downplayed by scholars and disregarded by the public as dangerous. Article V grants nothing. It is no more than recognition of a God-given societal right of the sovereign people to determine the limits of their mutual, governing compact.

Over the course of four squibs, I hope the reader will accept and appreciate the soundness and necessity of Levin’s proposals to re-federalize our government. My conclusion is that when compared to the processes in Article V, Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments offer a faster, more expedient, yet equally prudent approach to prompt correction of Constitutional errors and breaches. For practical purposes, his amendments amend Article V . . . yet require Article V to be realized.

First, I will introduce some historical perspective to western people’s efforts to keep free government. The second and third squibs filter pertinent ideas from The Federalist. In particular, the third squib sets the stage for the fourth, in that the first defense of our unalienable rights is the very structure of government. No number of Constitutional amendments can remedy the problems that afflict our nation until the structure of our government is re-federalized. Finally, in the fourth, we’ll look at a couple of Levin’s underrated and not well-understood proposals. I believe the lens of history can bring his ideas into the focus they deserve.

The sad thing is that Mark Levin could have actually gotten his Liberty Amendments more visibility if he hadn’t anti-Constitutional on us and supported a Canadian for President. Donald Trump will accept good ideas from anyone.

When Donald Trump said he could pay off the National Debt in eight years, it was because he took the good ideas of Bill Still on how to do it. Levin could have gotten the same support for his Liberty Amendments, but instead he chose to oppose the one person who could shake up the current establishment enough to get them adopted.

As Donald Trump would say: “Sad!”

I wouldn’t give Mark Levin a penny of my money. He showed me he is an educated idiot. Anyone that continues to bash the duly chosen republican candidate daily shows me he would be fine with Hillary. Hope his radio ratings suck and Levin TV crashes.

Yesterday, the Convention of States Project held a simulated Article V Convention in Williamsburg, Virginia. All fifty states were represented, almost entirely by sitting state legislators, about 150 total. Earlier in the week they sat in various committees to hash out the wording of amendments to limit the scope and reach of the national government.

I didn’t watch the entire convention, but caught enough of it to notice that unlike our Animal House congress, the proceedings were decorous. Even though this was a simulated convention, its members felt the gravity of their meeting and conducted themselves accordingly.

IOW, these mostly non-lawyers rose to the occasion. They conducted themselves as if the eye of history was upon them. I saw no partisanship. The red, blue, purple divide was not evident.

Now, I’m not sure how many amendments passed the convention. That will likely come out in a press release soon.

However, I did watch enough to witness the passage of one of Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments, one that empowered the states to veto congressional law on three-fifths vote of the states.

The restoration of Free Government depends on re-federalization of our government and not the election of one man.

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